Summary: Imagine barreling down the fretboard from Guitar Hero in a futuristic, F-Zero style hovercar, and you'll have a good idea of how Audiosurf works. This game released a few weeks ago on Steam, and message boards have been singing its praises ever since. And with good reason. Read Full Article

I'll be download this game for sure! Thanks for bringing it to my attention IGN!

I will try it out with some old-school Metallica (Ride the Lightning Album), Killswitch Engage, Five Finger Death Punch, Shadows Fall, In This Moment, Rage Against the Machine, Offspring, and probably throw in some Jimi Hendrix for good measure

They should release this game on the Xbox Live Arcade to reach an even bigger audience!

Lol the only bad thing about this review is the sound score, seriously how can you rate everything else so highly and then give a seven for sound. I think this is actually one of the high points of the game as you dont have to grind through songs you dislike. You can play what you want.

I downloaded this a few days ago after seeing it featured on the 1up Show. It amazes me that this quality of game could come from an indie game developer. All of you kids without this, download steam and fork over the $10. It's WAY worth it.

Wouldn't say it has much "competition", persay. Yes, it's a music-based game like the Guitar Hero series and other similar titles, but as the review describes, it's more comparable to a puzzle game than a console karaoke machine. I wouldn't even say a person would have to make a choice between this and something else. By all means, for only $10, this is one of the best-valued games I've ever played. Admittedly, I have very large music library to choose from, and how much you enjoy the game depends very much on how much music you can play on it. But it certainly gives you reason to go back an listen to all those songs you haven't really listened to in the past few years, and the scoreboards give the game an unexpectedly competitive feel, which makes it even more addicting than it already is. (You'll find yourself trying to get the highest scores on your favourite songs.)

I really can't recommend this game highly enough. Hell, it should be pre-installed on every computer.

Graphics look quite good, game is rather simple and very addictive. Choose one of your music files to play and off you go with minimum loading time. Even if you aren't good at puzzles, it isn't hard to play the game.

This is one of the "easy to learn, hard to master" games and the highscore system isn't so rigged too. This is DEFINITELY a must-have game. For USD$10, it is way underpriced for a game of its quality(go cry in a corner please, EA).

HOWEVER, when I Steam installed it on my laptop, I couldn't play it due to "PLAYBACK ERROR 44" while trying to play any music file. I browsed the support forums for awhile on via Steam and found out that in most cases, you need to download an MP3 codec. I don't know why but you just have to.

For those lazy to look at the FAQ thread on the support forums, heres the link to the codec which has worked for most people getting "PLAYBACK ERROR 44":

This game is great when you put on some shred tunes, like Malmsteen or Testament, i love this game. i never liked Guitar Hero or Rock Band though since obviously those games aren't for metal heads, just poser kids. For 10 bucks i get to play my tunes and keep my dignity.

I'm really loving this game. Amazingly enough, I live picking up a new CD and playing it in game. It has the appeal of Rock Band DLC with an infinite number of possible songs. Also, if possible, play with a 360 controller. It's quite a lot more fun and easy.

now why can't rock band or guitar hero, take this idea make it a little better and make a game where you can upload all your favorite songs. maybe with a charge, since they'd lose money if they would let you upload them for free, i mean hoping every week that your favorite song will come out on dlc is getting dull

This is without a doubt the best music game ever created. Why? Simply because you aren't stuck with what the developers give you. You aren't stuck with a game where you like maybe 3 or 4 of the tracks and the rest is just fodder.

And it's only $10, compared to the price of GH or RB which require a second mortgage to be taken out to get the full experiece, and you are forced to pay for any new tracks, and are stuck with what the developers want to be in the game, not you.